I keep finding myself running through the words from Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi, “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.”

Hmm.... quite.

🙂

All groups are at risk! It is simply that the risk is much higher in some groups than it is in others.

Ouch. 

I mean people have panic bought. The fact the death toll increases will amongst some sections of the population panic even more 

No I haven’t. I’ve been nervous and concerned. Panic isn’t a term I would use.

I am just starting to WFH and I have gone to the shops and stocked up on essentials. 

Bang on - fed up with hearing that 

OMG 

We,re testing more and only in hospitals so the number is perfectly understandable 

The deaths are confimed at the following trusts

• Barts Health NHS Trust - 2


• Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - 1


• Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust - 1


• Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - 1


• University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust - 1


• St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 1


• North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust - 1


• London North West University - 1


• Countess of Chester Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust - 1

All deaths were patients in the "at-risk groups"

You can play it down a bit but it does give some indication of the percentage growth rate. If it continues like this, we will be in trouble in a fortnight.

In the same way as we are all “at risk” from any disease you mean. The term is valid and is being used appropriately. The word “most” is understood (by the majority of people) without having to be stated each time.

Have they released case breakdown yet in regions. 

I read the government is meeting this afternoon. Perhaps we will get a lock-down of sorts after all?

Yes, April will probably be a horrible month.

I agree J - i'm still of the opinion Boris has got this wrong , but we will see 

'They're treating us like children': Health expert's warning over Boris Johnson's coronavirus response

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His comments echoed those of Richard Horton, chief editor of the Lancet medical journal, who accused the government of “playing roulette with the public”.

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/coronavirus-health-expert-government-response-085805630.html

I've just come off the phone from my Mum and said the same thing , I can see that being the only solution IMO 

It got lost in the avalanche of posts, I am reposting it:

A piece by a virologist criticising the apparent strategy of HMG

 https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-can-herd-immunity-really-protect-us-133583

 Achieving herd immunity would require well over 47 million people to be infected in the UK. Current estimates are that COVID-19 has a 2.3% case-fatality rate and a 19% rate of severe disease. This means that achieving herd immunity to COVID-19 in the UK could result in the deaths of more a million people with a further eight million severe infections requiring critical care.

 A delay strategy when combined with surveillance and containment, as recommended by the WHO, could be very effective in combating the spread of COVID-19. Yet if we slow the spread of the virus but are relying on herd immunity to protect the most vulnerable people, we would still need 47 million people to be infected.

 Even if we manage to protect the most vulnerable people (though no discussion is provided on how this will be done or for how long) the fatality rate for the otherwise healthy portion of the population may still be 0.5% or higher. This means that even in this unlikely “best case” scenario we would still be looking at more than 236,000 deaths.

 We can and we must do better than that. China is rapidly controlling the spread of COVID-19 without requiring herd immunity (only 0.0056% of its population has been infected). Waiting for herd immunity to COVID-19 to develop in the UK by letting the virus “pass through the community” is not a good public health strategy.

That will be updated later in the day

If the government isn't doing everything possible to save lives it means they must have put a £ price on each life in their model/s. I wonder what that price is? 

This has Dominic Cummings written all over it.